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Bibliography For The Importance Of Sports Historiography, Paul Huffman Mar 2022

Bibliography For The Importance Of Sports Historiography, Paul Huffman

Items from The Sporting News Collection

Bibliography of recent books on the importance of sports historiography.


Friday Message From The President, March 4, 2022, John Porter Mar 2022

Friday Message From The President, March 4, 2022, John Porter

John Porter

Friday Message from the President, March 4, 2022


Friday Message From The President, February 25, 2022, John Porter Feb 2022

Friday Message From The President, February 25, 2022, John Porter

John Porter

Friday Message from the President, February 25, 2022.


Friday Message From The President, February 18, 2022, John Porter Feb 2022

Friday Message From The President, February 18, 2022, John Porter

John Porter

Friday Message from the President, February 18, 2022


Friday Message From The President, February 4, 2022, John Porter Feb 2022

Friday Message From The President, February 4, 2022, John Porter

John Porter

Friday Message from the President, February 4, 2022


Friday Message From The President, January 28, 2022, John Porter Jan 2022

Friday Message From The President, January 28, 2022, John Porter

John Porter

Friday Message from the President, January 28, 2022


Friday Message From The President, January 21, 2022, John Porter Jan 2022

Friday Message From The President, January 21, 2022, John Porter

John Porter

Friday Message from the President, January 21, 2022


Friday Message From The President, January 14, 2022, John Porter Jan 2022

Friday Message From The President, January 14, 2022, John Porter

John Porter

Friday Message from the President, January 14, 2022


2020-2021 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University Apr 2021

2020-2021 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University

Honors Convocation Programs

2020-2021 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation


Nature Much Improved: The Curation Of A Nineteenth-Century Neighborhood And Greenspace, Shannan C. Mason Sep 2020

Nature Much Improved: The Curation Of A Nineteenth-Century Neighborhood And Greenspace, Shannan C. Mason

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Shannan Mason uses the Lucas Place neighborhood as a case study to understand the early movement of wealthier St. Louisans to the outskirts of the city and their role in rejecting crowded urban sensibilities for expanded greenspace. This article won the Morrow Prize for the Best Student Paper on a Missouri Topic from the Missouri Conference on History in 2020.


Fall/Winter 2020, Full Issue Sep 2020

Fall/Winter 2020, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


Joseph Robidoux Iii, The 1780 Battle Of St. Louis, & The St. Louis Robidoux Legacy, Stephen L. Kling Jr. Sep 2020

Joseph Robidoux Iii, The 1780 Battle Of St. Louis, & The St. Louis Robidoux Legacy, Stephen L. Kling Jr.

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The Robidoux family has been part of the history of Missouri on both sides of the state dating to the Revolutionary War period. Stephen Kling places Robidoux’s role into historical perspective.


Krekel & Kribben– Diverging Views On The Future Of Slavery, Steve Ehmann Sep 2020

Krekel & Kribben– Diverging Views On The Future Of Slavery, Steve Ehmann

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Steve Ehlmann explores the evolving views of two German politicians on slavery as the Civil War approached.


2020-2021 Lindenwood University Viewbook, Lindenwood University Aug 2020

2020-2021 Lindenwood University Viewbook, Lindenwood University

Viewbooks

Promotional booklet sent to prospective students of Lindenwood University.


“By Unexpected Means”—The Founding Of St. Joseph At St. Louis, 1863-1878, Dana Delibovi May 2020

“By Unexpected Means”—The Founding Of St. Joseph At St. Louis, 1863-1878, Dana Delibovi

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Five nuns traveled to St. Louis in 1863 to create a contemplative order in the midst of the Civil War. Dana Delibovi investigates the reasons the group came.


Chasing The Robert E. Lee: Boat Races On The Mississippi River, Dean Klinkenberg May 2020

Chasing The Robert E. Lee: Boat Races On The Mississippi River, Dean Klinkenberg

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Perhaps the most famous steamboat race on the Mississippi River came when the Robert E. Lee beat the Natchez from New Orleans to St. Louis in 1870. The record stood for some six decades, when a wave of races up the river started.


Death, Civic Pride, And Collective Memory: The Dedication Of Bellefontaine Cemetery In St. Louis, Jeffrey Smith May 2020

Death, Civic Pride, And Collective Memory: The Dedication Of Bellefontaine Cemetery In St. Louis, Jeffrey Smith

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Starting in the 1830s, cemeteries in cities like St. Louis became more than just burial grounds. They became places people visited and conveyors of a city’s collective memory. All this was conveyed in Truman Marcellus Post’s sermon at the dedication of Bellefontaine Cemetery in 1850.


Otto Widmann And The Birds Of Missouri, Bonnie Stepenoff May 2020

Otto Widmann And The Birds Of Missouri, Bonnie Stepenoff

The Confluence (2009-2020)

As late as the early 1990s, the only comprehensive book on Missouri’s birds was Otto Widmann’s Preliminary Catalog of the Birds of Missouri, published in 1907. Widmann documented the Eurasian Tree Sparrow, which has just one habitat in the United States—in St. Louis.


Spring/Summer 2020, Full Issue May 2020

Spring/Summer 2020, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


Office Of The President And The Cabinet, John Porter Nov 2019

Office Of The President And The Cabinet, John Porter

John Porter

Newsletter from President Porter's office and other administrators of Lindenwood University.


“To Preserve The Historic Lore For Which St. Louis Is Famous”: The St. Louis Historic Markers Program And The Construction Of Community Historical Memory, Bryan Jack Nov 2019

“To Preserve The Historic Lore For Which St. Louis Is Famous”: The St. Louis Historic Markers Program And The Construction Of Community Historical Memory, Bryan Jack

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Starting in the 1930s, the City of St. Louis began marking historic sites with a collection of signs for sites to draw attention to community memory. In this article, Bryan Jack investigates these signs and their meaning in downtown St. Louis.


Fall 2019/Winter 2020, Full Issue Nov 2019

Fall 2019/Winter 2020, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


“Their Blood Has Flown And Mingled With Ours”: The Politics Of Slavery In Illinois And Missouri In The Early Republic, Lawrence Celani Nov 2019

“Their Blood Has Flown And Mingled With Ours”: The Politics Of Slavery In Illinois And Missouri In The Early Republic, Lawrence Celani

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The ideas of Illinois and Missouri as divided over slavery masks the fluid nature of support for or opposition to slavery in the two state, as Lawrence Celani explains in this article, the winner of the Morrow Prize presented by the Missouri Conference on History.


“Hang Him Decently And In Order”: Order, Politics, And The 1853 Lynching Of Hiram, A Slave, Zachary Dowdle Nov 2019

“Hang Him Decently And In Order”: Order, Politics, And The 1853 Lynching Of Hiram, A Slave, Zachary Dowdle

The Confluence (2009-2020)

Lynching became a visible tool for slaveowners to deal with community regulatory issues, as Zachary Dowdle suggests in this article.


New Perspectives On The Great Fire Of 1849, Bob Moore May 2019

New Perspectives On The Great Fire Of 1849, Bob Moore

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The story of the fire in St. Louis started by the steamboat White Cloud in 1849 often focuses on the destruction to the business district. This article sheds new light on the happenings during the fire from court testimony surrounding the destruction of Phillips Music Store, through eyewitness accounts.


A Gateway To The East: An Exploration Of St. Louis’ Mexican History Through The Built Environment, Daniel Gonzales May 2019

A Gateway To The East: An Exploration Of St. Louis’ Mexican History Through The Built Environment, Daniel Gonzales

The Confluence (2009-2020)

St. Louis had a relationship with Mexico dating to trade along the Santa Fe Trail starting in the 1820s. It came to include commerce, marketing, and migration starting in the late nineteenth century, as Daniel Gonzales details here.


So Much To Learn: Dye Tracing The Current River Landscape, Part Iii, Quinta Scott May 2019

So Much To Learn: Dye Tracing The Current River Landscape, Part Iii, Quinta Scott

The Confluence (2009-2020)

In this third installment of her work on the Current River, Quinta Scott looks at environmental change in the iconic Missouri Waterway


Spring/Summer 2019, Full Issue May 2019

Spring/Summer 2019, Full Issue

The Confluence (2009-2020)

No abstract provided.


An Extraordinary Odyssey: One Man’S Fight To Stay Free During World War Ii, Diane Everman May 2019

An Extraordinary Odyssey: One Man’S Fight To Stay Free During World War Ii, Diane Everman

The Confluence (2009-2020)

The Schweich family fled Nazi Germany in 1941 and landed in St. Louis. This is the story of their journey during World War II.


2018-2019 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University Apr 2019

2018-2019 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation, Lindenwood University

Honors Convocation Programs

2018-2019 Lindenwood University Honors Convocation